| CSR Certificate Program at St. Michael's College
(CSRwire) A few places still available. The University of St. Michael's College invites applications to its innovative CSR Certificate program. Program begins in Toronto October 18-20, 2004. Unique in Canada, the Certificate program blends theory and practice in a relaxed, conversational atmosphere. Designed in collaboration with the Conference Board of Canada for practitioners, managers and leaders in CSR, community investment, ethics, environmental reporting, human resources, purchasing, communications and public relations. For description visit www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/csr Graduates gave glowing reviews to the program and to its award winning learning tool, a web based simulation that allows participants to strategize, select tactics and get feedback on a complex CSR problem faced by a fictitious GPS company.
Tibet's March Toward Modernization
To sum up, the development history of Tibet in the past five decades since its peaceful liberation has been one of proceeding from darkness to brightness, from backwardness to progress, from poverty to prosperity and from isolation to openness, and of the region marching toward modernization as a part of the big family of China. II. Tibet's Modernization Achievements
In the past 50 years, thanks to the leadership of the Central Government, the aid of the whole nation and the unremitting efforts of the people of all ethnic groups in the region, Tibet has kept marching forward along the road to modernization and made significant achievements that have attracted worldwide attention. -- The economy has progressed significantly. During the past 50 years, Tibet has witnessed tremendous changes in its economic system and economic structure and significant progress in its aggregate economic volume.
Xposed! Norman Podhoretz's boobs
Even as Mr Bush must surely have been wrestling with the question of whether it would be on his watch that the decision on bombing the Iranian nuclear facilities would have to be made, the world was hit with a different kind of bomb. This took the form of an unclassified summary of a new NIE, published early last December. Entitled "Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities", this new document was obviously designed to blow up the near-universal consensus that had flowed from the conclusions reached by the intelligence community in its 2005 NIE. In brief, whereas the NIE of 2005 had assessed "with high confidence that Iran currently is determined to develop nuclear weapons", the new NIE of 2007 did "not know whether [Iran] currently intends to develop nuclear weapons". In fact, the headline finding of the 2007 NIE was that Iran had ceased its nuclear weapons program way back in 2003, even more damaging for the 2005 assessment.
East Timor president asks nation to forgive Suharto
But with the former general in critical condition in hospital, it looks increasingly unlikely he will ever face trial for human rights abuses or graft. The head of the medical team, who on Sunday gave Suharto a 50:50 chance of surviving, said there was still an equal chance of a recovery or deterioration in the former general's condition. "But we are optimistic. Pak Harto still has a strong will to live," Mardjo Soebiandono told a news conference, referring to Suharto by his popular name. Djusuf Misbach, a neurologist treating Suharto, said the former president was still showing responses, but because he was sedated it was difficult to assess that. .
Mayor plays role in labour disputes
When negotiators for the Montreal Transport Corp. and its 3,800-member drivers union resume contract talks this week they'll be doing so in the shadow of Mayor Gérald Tremblay. To a certain extent, the pall cast by that shadow was broadened by the union itself after it blamed Tremblay for vetoing what they contend was a tentative agreement reached Dec. 9, although MTC management maintains that while both sides were close, no such agreement existed. Both sides do agree that it was city hall that sent them back to the bargaining table after it found that whatever had been discussed (if not agreed to) on Dec. 9 was too expensive. .
Did Innovation Get A Bad Name At The World Economic Forum In Davos?
There were some two dozen sessions, panels and workshops on innovation and design at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos and nearly all of them were packed with CEOs, top managers from corporations and NGOs. But the snarky gossip in the hallways was "look what innovation gave us with subprime and Soc General." The meaning here was that financial innovation is blowing up the financial system and leading to a serious economic downturn, if not outright recession. How are we, those of us in the innovation space to respond to this? Because a serious response is really needed. Here's my analysis and please send in yours. The disaster in the subprime area is due to a very bad innovation process. New products were created by very smart people but they weren't prototyped.
Make My Day
These people are called editors. We writers have more ... colorful names for them. The problem is that writers take rejection personally. It's not just that our work wasn't good enough or the right fit for that publication. We think there's something wrong with us as people. Our souls are stained. We've got some fundamental flaw in our psyches that the editors recognized, but we don't. This is what we believe deep down in the dark places we never talk about with our loved ones, but share it with our readers in our columns. "Don't take it personally," other writers, like Stephen King and his multi-million dollar empire, tell us. "Just resubmit it somewhere else." Tell you what, Stephen, I'll stop taking it personally as soon as you funnel your next book advance my way. Until then, I'll shred my rejection letters, gnash my teeth, and have my payback fantasies against these nay-sayers of my life's work.
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